Wished al Qaida terrorist traced in Lahore jail

NEW DELHI: Eight years after he was declared an absconder by a court docket in Delhi, Mohammed Usman, a hardened operative of the al-Qaida in Indian subcontinent (AQIS) has been traced in Pakistan, sources say.
Usman is learnt to be lodged in Lahore jail subsequent to his arrest in a legal case in that nation. A routine enquiry from the ministry of exterior affairs by the Pak govt a couple of dozen Indian origin inmates and fishermen lodged in numerous jail led to this discovery and finally blew Usman’s cowl.
Usman, a resident of Sambhal, had absconded after Delhi Police’s particular cell first the primary AQIS module in 2015. He was termed a fugitive in 2016 together with different AQIS chiefs Asim Umar aka Sanaul Haq and Farhatullah Ghori in addition to different operatives recognized as Sharjeel Akhtar, Mohammed Arshiyan, Rehan, Shahid Faisal, Umar Hyderabadi and Abu Sufiyan.
A bunch of arrested AQIS operatives together with Mohammad Asif have been convicted in 2023. The court docket had then noticed that the prosecution would revive its case towards these accused — who’ve been declared s ‘Proclaimed Offenders’ vide order dated 12.07.2016 — when they’re arrested by the police.
The operation towards the AQIS module had kicked off after particular cell acquired data that the terrorist outfit was making an attempt to arrange its base in India. “The target is to disturb its peace and tranquility for which its module turned lively in Western UP, notably in District Sambhal. The tip was developed and surveillance mounted to establish the identification of suspects visiting international international locations together with Iran, Turkey and Pakistan in a suspicious method,” recalled a senior investigator.
Throughout investigation, the arrested suspects spilled the beans on Usman and others and in addition revealed the identification of elusive AQIS chief Maulana Asim Umar as Sanaul Haq, a resident of Deepa Sarai in Sambhal.
“One of many accused Zafar Masood had visited Pakistan in November-December, 1999 pretending to be doing the enterprise of ‘Pan/Kattha’ and met Asim Umar at a coaching camp named Harkat-e-Mujahidin. He returned to India after taking Deeni and Aksari coaching which pertains to teachings in weaponry and jihadi literature,” the investigator recalled.
Usman later received in contact with Masood in March 2001 and requested him to rearrange the sta of two Pakistani militants named Syed Mohammad Hamja and Maqsood Ahmed Ali. The 2 have been apprehended by the police earlier than they might execute their process. Masood and others then lay low and engaged in readying an outfit beneath the steering of Abdul Rehman Katki, whereas enjoying the function of a sleeper cell. They began to offer shapes to their plans in 2014 however have been busted lower than a yr later.